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You know that -there exists a natural desire in 
most persons, especially in those far advanced in years, 
as I am now, to learn all they can oonoerning their 
ancestry, and preserve what they learn; henoe I, in- 
fluenced by that motive, have occupied myself in ar- 
ranging the few following pages with what knowledge 
I have been able to oolleot oonoerning the Sartain tribe 
to which you belong. Perhaps the subject may interest 
you sufficiently to induce you to preserve this record, 
as- 1 hope you will, for if you care little about it now, 
i- those who come after you may care a good deal, With 

this expectation I have prepared it, 

I remember, when I was guite . young, during my 
father’s life-time -and who died when I was but eight 
and a half years old— that mention was occasionally 
made of the family tradition, that our forefathers were 
broadcloth weavers who fled from Prance to escape the 
persecutions instituted against those who' were con- 
victed of reading the Bible, Por a long time I enter- 

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tained the belief that this emigration of the family' 
occurred, subsequent to, and. in consequence of the 
revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV, in the 
year 1685, But I now possess certain knowledge that 
it took place, at the least, a hundred and thirty years 
before that event, and more than forty years prior 
even to the promulgation of that famous Edict of re- 
ligious toleration by Henry IV, in the year 1598, You 
will see by the subjoined authentic records, that the 
Sartains must have been among those who composed 
the first exodus from France when the persecutions 
began, after, and consequent on, the invention of the 
art of printing, 

The lists of the Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of 
the Sartains preserved in the old vestry records of the 
Parish Church of Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, England, 
show that they were residents of that town in 1557, 
and how long before that date, I have at present no 
means of ascertaining precisely, 

What caused them to leave France for England the 
following narrative will explain, After the invention 
of the art of printing, among the earliest productions 
of the press were Bihles, but from no other higher 
motive than prospective pecuniary gain, Gutenberg 
and Schaeffer not possessing sufficient means to carry 
on their printing business, confided their secret to John 
Faust, a wealthy goldsmith of Mentz, who joined them 










































































































































































































































































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in their venture and supplied the necessary funds, 
These Bibles (in the Latin vulgate) were at first sold 
as, and at the price of manuscripts, The first edition 
being exhausted, Faust went to Paris, carrying with 
him a second edition, which he began selling at the 
usual high rate, but getting impatient to disencumber 
himself of the balance of the edition, he sold them at 
such low prices compared with those charged at first, 
that it caused surprise and suspicion, Different copies 
were compared, and found to be so exactly alike, that 
it was concluded they could only have been so written 
by aid from the Evil One, so Faust was arrested on 
the charge of being in league with the devil, and hence 
originated the phrase, “The devil and Doctor Faustus,” 
He obtained his liberty only by revealing the secret of 
the manner of printing them, 

The earliest Bibles could be read only by the learned, 
because they were in the Latin vulgate, One of these 
reached the library of the convent of . Erfurt, where 
Luther, at the age of twenty-one, found it,, while he 
was there in training to be a monk, But translations 
of parts of the Scriptures into the language of the 
people soon began to appear, and finally these were 
superseded by a complete French version of the entire 
Bible, printed at Antwerp, and issued in successive 
portions between the years 1512 and 1530, This trans- 
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Estaples, in Picardy, and it was eagerly sought and 

read by the people, causing a reaction against the 

superstition and impiety which then generally prevailed, 

The church authorities became alarmed ; the Inquisi- 
tion was armed with new powers, and an order was 
issued from Pome prohibiting printing, The Sorbonne 
at Paris was appealed to, and it obtained from the 
king (Francis the First) an ordinance for the sup- 
pression of printing, which was promulgated on the 
26th day of February, 1535, Bibles and Testaments 
were now seized wherever found, and burned, Printers 
convicted of printing Bibles were burned, and next 

followed the burning at the stake of those who were 

only guilty of selling or reading them, In Paris alone, 
during the six months ending in June, 1534, there 
were twenty-one persons burned alive, one of them a 
woman, A forcible expression was given of the -sit- 
uation, and views of the Church, by the Vicar of 
Croydon, England, in a sermon preached at St, Paul’s 
Cross, London, in which he declared “We must root 
out printing or printing will root out us,” But we 
have seen that “ the art preservative of all arts' ’ could 
not be rpoted out, 

The place with which we, the Sartains, have the 
nearest interest, is the town of Meaux, situated about 
fifty miles northeast from Paris, and near the then 
Flemish frontier, It was full of working people, wool 















carders, fullers, cloth weavers and other artisans, and 
among these the reform sentiments took early and 
deep root, This was probably helped by the proximity 
of the Flemish towns, whose people were engaged in 
similar occupations, and who were earnest in their 
convictions of the value of the new religious awaken- 
ing, The new Bishop of Meaux (G-uillaume Brioon- 
net, Count of Montbrun), on taking charge of his 
diocese, had been shocked at the licentiousness of his 
clergy and their utter neglect of their ministerial duties, 
He was at the same time profoundly impressed by the 
manifest improvement in the mariners and morals of 
the people called Gospellers, Accordingly he began the 
gratuitous distribution of printed Testaments among 
the poorer people, and this was followed by still 
further improvement, But the Bishop was heavily 
fined by his superiors for what he had done, and from 
that time he shrank out of sight, Persecution was 
diligently applied to crush out the new heresy, and no 
matter what the learning or rank of the suspected 
heretic, he had to satisfy the tribunal before which he 
was summoned, or die at the stake, Ho wonder that 
those who could, fled for refuge to England, 

Arrived there, they were welcomed and protected by 
the authorities, partly because ' they were generally 
skilled artisans; for the English kings had long been 
anxious to introduce manufactures into the country, 


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Down to that time nearly the whole land, had been 
used for grazing only, and wool, the great staple, was 
exported to Flanders and France, to be again re-im- 
ported in the form of woven fabrics, Thus was manu- 
facturing industry transplanted to England through the 
impolitic bigotry of the Church and aristocracy of 
France and Spain, 

It may be also taken into account, perhaps, that 
another influence operated in favor of these emigrants 
at this particular time. Henry THU., who was then 
king, had separated the Church of his kingdom from 
that of Home, had denied the authority of the Pope, 
and was then engaged in the suppression of all the 
monastic establishments throughout the land, The 
same favorable reception was continued to the refugees 
during the succeeding reign of Edward VI, 

At first the broadcloth weavers settled in the west 
of England— largely at Trowbridge, in Wiltshire,- and 
among these earlier groups there can be no doubt were 
the Sartain family, whose record begins there in 1557, 
the earlier records having disappeared, From that time 
to the present, west of England cloth has always been 
held in the highest estimation, 

The people continued • to leave their native home 
until the French king, Henry IV,, promulgated his 
famous Edict, in 1598, known as the “ Edict of Nantes,” 
which established religious toleration, It would have 


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bean easy to fortell the outcome of such liberality ; lie 
was assassinated, by 'a fanatic of the Church, But 
peace reigned only until Louis XIV, revoked that Edict 
in 1685, and again loosed the bands of persecution, 
It is estimated that in conseguenoe of tbis revocation 
five hundred thousand of the people termed Huguenots 
left the country, and settled in England, Ireland and 
the American colonies, and that the whole loss to 
France, from first to last, through this intolerance, was 
about a million of the most valuable of her population, 
the industrial class, 

When Philip II, of Spain heard of the wholesale 
slaughter of Huguenots on the evening of St, Barthol- 
omew, in Paris, in 1573, he is said to have laughed 
for the only time in his life, By his order the 
notorious Duke of Alva was perpetrating atrocities 
throughout Flanders, similar to those the Church was 
executing in France, and with like effect, 

As Galileo said— after his torture and imprisonment 
by the Church for having taught the truth of one of 
God’s laws— “But the earth does move, for all that!” 
So, too, the world of independent thought and con- 
viction advances. The idea is spreading widely and 
rapidly that infidelity to the Church is fidelity to God, 
Happily the Church has been deprived of its favorite 
old-time implements of rack,’ torture and flaming fag- 
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continue unsafe, to trust any— so-called— religious body 
of people with dominant political power, because they 
invariably use it to 'persecute those who differ from 
them in opinion, The murders of Christians by Chris- 
tians for opinion’s sake exceed in number and bar- 
barity those of Christians by Pagans from the same 
motive, 

An alarm now prevails in churches of all denomina- 
tions (or rather, with the unprogressive fossilized indi- 
viduals in those churches) at the rapid enlargement 
and progress of scientific knowledge, The cry, “We 
must root out printing,”- is changed to, “We must root 
out science, or science will root out us,” But it needs 
no gift of prophetic vision' to foresee the inevitable 
outcome of such an antagonism, Modern enlightened 
development substitutes facts for fables, and a grand 
and worthy conception of the Divine Creator of the 
vast universe is taking the place of that imagined by 
a narrow, cruel, benighted and barbarous people of a 
past age, They created a personal' god after their own 
image-capricious and vindictive, But “the time cometh 
and now is,” when the immortal human soul, eman- 
cipated from the obscurity of a narrow superstition, 
will emerge into the broad light of truth and reason, 
and ascend through nature up to nature’s God. The 
moral sentiments and generous impulses of the human 
soul, and a veneration' for the sublime creation of the 


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Supreme Architect of the universe, is a spontaneity 
naturally evolved in the mind of man, It is a de- 
velopment entirely independent of any of the numerous 
theologies of the past or present, or of those that may 
yet supersede the present, To love and practice 

THE GOOD AND ABHOR THE BAD, IS THE ONE. ONLY 
TRUE RELIGION— 1 THE RELIGION OP THE FUTURE. 



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from fVish Records of TRowbfidc^, Wills, En^knd. 

ATT EST : 

George L. Cheverill, 

Previous Records lost. parish Clerk. 


1557. 

Aug. 

19. 

Alice Sertayne, 

DAUGHTER OF MARKE. 

1579. 

Sept. 

20. 

FIenry Sertayne, 

son of Marke and Grace. 

1596. 

Dec. 

2. 

T homas Serten, 

s. of John. 

1603. 

June 

27. 

Joane Serten, 

d. of William and Agnes. 

1606. 

Nov. 

1 . 

Katherine Sertayne, 

d. of William and Agnes. 

1609. 

Nov. 

8. 

William Sertaine, 

s. of William. 

1610. 

Aug. 

10 . 

Agnes Certaine, 

d. of William. 

1611. 

March 

i 5. 

Richard Certaine, 

s. of William. 

1612. 

March 1 3. 

Margaret Certayne, 

d. of William and Agnes. 

1619. 

Aug. 

29. 

Anna Certen, 

d. of Edward and Dora. 

1621. 

Feb. 

17. 

Elizabeth Sartaine, 

d. of Edward and Dora. 

1621. 

June 

3. 

Alice Sertaine, 

d. of William and Joan. 

1623. 

Feb. 

7. 

Robert Sartaine, 

s. of William and Joan. 

1626. 

May 

7. 

Richard Certen, 

s. of Richard and Dennis. 

1627. 

Aug. 

19. 

Joane Certen, 

d. of William and Joane. 

1636. 

Feb. 

19. 

An Sartaine, 

d. of William and Margaret. 

1640. 

May 

14. 

Robert Sartaine, 

s. of William and An. 

1642. 

Dec. 

26. 

FIenry Sartaine, 

s. of William and An. 


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BAPTISMS — Continued. 


1661. 

Dec. 

12. 

Ann Sartain, 

d. of John and Ann. 

1663. 

Feb. 

7. 

Martha Sartaine, 

d. of John and Ann. 

1665. 

Feb. 

13. 

William Sartain, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1666. 

Jan. 

17. 

John and Richard, 

ss. of John and Ann. 

1666. 

May 

12. 

William Sartain, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1667. 

March 1 6. 

An Sartaine, 

d. of Antony and Jane. 

1668. 

Dec. 

28. 

Mary Sartain, 

d. of Robert and Mary. 

1669. 

May 

15. 

Richard Sartaine, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1669. 

July 

3. 

Edith Sartaine, 

d. of John and Ann. 

1670. 

Feb. 

25. 

Robert Sartain, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1671. 

July 

2. 

Anne Sartaine, 

d. of FIenry and Anne. 

1673. 

Dec. 

23. 

Anne Sartan, 

d. of FIenry and Anne. 

1673. 

Dec. 

30. 

Ann Sartan, 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

1674. 

Aug. 

25. 

1 on e Sartaine, 

d. of Anthony and Mary. 

1675. 

May 

24. 

Richard Sartaine, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1675. 

Sept. 

6. 

Jane Sartaine, 

d. of Anthony and Jane. 

1676. 

Feb. 

18. 

Mary Sartaine, 

d. of John and Anne. 

1676. 

Oct. 

19. 

FIenry Sartaine, 

s. of FIenry and Anne. 

1676. 

Dec. 

10. 

Joseph Sartaine, 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

1677. 

Sept. 

29. 

Elizabeth Sartaine, 

d. of Robert and Mary, 

1677. 

Nov. 

15. 

William Sartaine, 

s. of Antonie and Maria. 

1678. 

May 

26. 

Maria Sartaine, 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

1678. 

Aug. 

22. 

Jonathan Sartaine, 

s. of Richard and Elizabeth. 

1678. 

Nov. 

19. 

Edward Sartaine, 

s. of Henry and Ann. 

1679. 

March 

i 5. 

Elizabeth Sartaine, 

d. of John and Margaret. 

1679. 

Oct. 

4. 

Ann Sartain, 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

1679. 

Dec. 

30. 

Antonie Sartain, 

s. of Antonie and Maria. 

1681. 

Jan. 

15. 

Edeath Sartain, 

d. of Henry and Anne. 

1681. 

Nov. 

6. 

FIenry Sartain, 

s. of Robert and Maria. 

1682. 

Feb. 

20. 

Robert Sartain, 

s. of Robert and Maria. 

1682. 

April 

4. 

Maria Sartain, 

d. of James and Ann. 

1684. 

Jan. 

1. 

Margery Sartain, 

d. of Henry and Anne. 

1684. 

July 

20. 

John Sartaine, 

s. of Robert and Maria. 


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BAPTISMS— Continued, 


1684. 

Aug. 

10. 

John Sartain, 

1685. 

June 

21. 

Milicent Sartain, 

1686. 

Nov. 

21. 

Katharine Sartaine, 

1687. 

Dec. 

17. 

Thomas Sartaine, 

1688. 

Feb. 

18. 

Maria Sartaine, 

1689. 

Dec. 

20. 

Jane Sartaine, 

1690. 

May 

19. 

John Sartaine, 

1690. 

Nov. 

1. 

Anne Sartaine, 

1691. 

June 

14. 

Elizabeth Sartain, 

1692. 

June 

16. 

Henry Sartain, 

1696. 

Oct 

20. 

Katharine Sartain, 

1701. 

Dec. 

14. 

Elizabeth Sartaine, 

1702. 

Jan. 

14. 

Robert Sartaine, 

1703. 

Oct. 

27. 

Anne Sartaine, 

1704. 

Aug. 

28. 

William Sartaine, 

1705. 

Nov. 

4. 

Mary Sartaine, 

1711. 

Dec. 

14. 

Elizabeth Sarton, 

1713. 

March 

5. 

Elizabeth Sarton, 

1715. 

Feb. 

24. 

Anne Sartaine, 

1717. 

Jan. 

28. 

Eliza Sartaine, 

1718. 

Feb. 

10. 

Alice Sartan, 

1722. 

July 

12. 

Mary Sertin, 

1726. 

March27. 

James Sertaine, 

1727. 

April 

2. 

( William and 

Catharine Sertaine. 

1732. 

Dec. 

15. 

Mary Sartain, 

1733. 

Sept. 

9. 

Jane Sartain, 

1734. 

Sept. 

3. 

Henry Sartain, 

1735. 

Jan. 

2. 

Thomas Sartain, 

1 735. 

Feb. 

17. 

Henry Sartain, 

1735. 

Dec. 

29. 

William Sartain, 

1736. 

Dec. 

24. 

Mary Sartain, 

1737. 

March 

3. 

Edward Sartain, 


s. of Richard. 

s. of John and Anne. 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

s. of Henry and Anne. 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

s. of Henry and Anne. 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

d. of William and Jane. 

s. of Robert and Maria. 

d. of Robert and Maria. 

d. of Edward and Mary, born 

s. of John and Sibilla. 

d. of Edward (a weaver) and Mary. 

s. of Martha (widdo). 

d. of Edward )a weaver’ and Mary. 

d. of Edward and Mary. 

d. of Robert and Mary. 

d. of Robert and Mary. 

d. of Robert and Mary. 

d. of William and Sarah. 

d. of Joseph and Margaret. 

s. of Robert and Mary. 

s. & d. of William and Sarah. 

d. of Henry and Sarah, 
d. of John and Mary. 
s. of Henry and Sarah. 
s. of John and Mary. 
s. of Henry and Sarah. 
s. of Robert and Ann. 

(adult). 

s. of Henry and Sarah. 


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BAPTISMS— Continued, 


1737. 

Oct. 

15. 

Katharine Sartain, 

d. 

of Robert and Ann. 

1 73S. 

Jan. 

20. 

Katharine Sartain, 

D. 

of Robert and Ann. 

1 740. 

Aug. 

24. 

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Ann Sartain, 

D. 

of Henry and Sarah. 

1743. 

March 28. 

Joseph Sertain, 

s. 

of Robert and Sarah. 

1751. 

June 

2. 

Ann Sertain, 

D. 

of Robert and Ann. 

1752. 

April 

12 . 

Betty Sertain, 

D. 

of Thomas and Ann. 

1753. 

April 

15. 

Jane Sertain, 

D. 

of James and Elizabeth. 

1755. 

March 23. 

Ann Sertain, 

D. 

of Thomas and Ann. 

1755. 

June 

29 

Martha Sertain, 

D. 

of William and Sarah. 

1756. 

Oct. 

15. 

Ann Sertain, 

D. 

of T homas and Ann. 

1757. 

Sept. 

25. 

William Sertain, 

S. 

of William and Sarah. 

1759. 

May 

13. 

James and Betty Sartain 

, S. 

& d. of Wm. and Rebecca. 

1759. 

Oct. 

12 . 

Grace Sertain, 

D. 

OF T HOMAS AND Ann. 

1766. 

May 

23. 

James Sertain, 

S. 

of William and Margaret. 

1769. 

Aug. 

6. 

Ann Sartin, 

D. 

of Joseph and Sarah. 

1772. 

April 

19. 

James Sartin, 

S. 

of William and Margaret. 

1786. 

Jan. 

8. 

Ann Sertain, 

D. 

of Jonathan and Patience. 

1786. 

Aug. 

6. 

Ann Sertain, 

D. 

of John and Ann. 

1787. 

June 

16. 

Thomas Sartin, 

S. 

of Jonathan and Patience. 

1789. 

Aug. 

9. 

c Ann, Elizabeth and ) 

( Mary Sartin, ) 

CHILDREN OF RlCHARD AND BeTT 

1791. 

March 1 3. 

Ann Sartin, 

D. 

of John and Sarah. 

1802. 

July 

4. 

John Sartin, 

S. 

of John and Susannah. 

1803. 

Jan. 

2. 

Ann Sartin, 

D. 

of James and Mary. 

1806. 

Nov. 

23. 

Samuel Sartin, 

S. 

of Rebecca. 

1817. 

April 

23. 

William Sartin, 

S. 

of Samuel and Elizabeth. 




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1828. 

May 

25. 

1 Thomas, 5 years & 6 mos. 

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CHILDREN OF 

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1830. 

Nov. 

7. 

George Sartin, 

s. 

of John and Elizabeth. 

1833. 

May 

26. 

Job Sartain, 

s. 

of John and Elizabeth. 

1859. 

June 

19. 

Mary Maria Sartin, 

D. 

of James and Martha. 


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The foregoing comprises one hundred and .fifteen 
entries of baptisms from the year 1557 down, hut the 
registry is obviously incomplete, for neither my father, 
John, who was born in 1771, nor my grandfather 
Robert, who died in 1807, are on the list, both born 
in Trowbridge, If baptized at all, it may have been 
in an Anabaptist ohapel in which the family were 
members, and who did not believe in infant baptism, 
My uncle Robert is also absent from the list of Trow- 
bridge 'baptisms, 

My grandfather Robert is recorded as having mar- 
ried my grandmother, Ann Pavey, April 23d, 1770, 
My father, John, left Trowbridge to reside in London, 
and there married my mother, Ann Burgess (of Not- 
tingham), • October 25, 1802, and in that oity I was 
born, October 24th, 1808, He died in London, April 
4, 1817, and was buried in the grounds of St, James, 
Hampstead Road, In the same grounds (opposite let- 
ter K, middle division) were also buried my first 
sister, Mary (who died of croup), my second sister, 
Mary (who was burned to death, by her clothing 
taking fire), aged eight years and four months, and 
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ExWis tom iP Records o 4h* Pvish °- 1 rowPid^, Wills, Endknd 


(Jtlctrriagee. 


Previous Records lost. 


Attest : 

George L. Cheverill, 

Parish Clerk. 

SPELLING COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL. 


1578. 

Oct. 

16. 

Marke Sertayne 

to 

Grace Parson. 

1594. 

June 

8. 

T homas Sertayne 

TO 

Elizabeth Pinshine. 

1595. 

April 

28. 

Alice Sertayne 

TO 

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Thomas Horlocke. 

1598. 

Oct. 

10 . 

Katharine Sertayne 

TO 

John Abrel. 

1602. 

Aug. 

2. 

William Serten 

TO 

Agnes Pinshine. 

1623. 

July 

22. 

Jane Sartaine 

TO 

John Stallard. 

1630. 

Nov. 

8. 

William Sarton 

TO 

Agnes Sarton. 

1631. 

Jan. 

16. 

Katherine Sarton 

TO 

William Walton. 




Register missing here for 

SOME 

years. 

1670. 

Dec. 

26. 

Henry Sartaine 

TO 

Ann Offer. 

1675. 

Nov. 

25. 

John Sartain 

TO 

Margaret C. 

1682. 

May 

8. 

Ann Sartain 

TO 

John Maishman. 

1688. 

Sept. 

23. 

Elizabeth Sartain 

TO 

William Handcock. 

1695. 

Feb. 

24. 

Richard Sartaine 

TO 

Elizabeth Horlock. 

1699. 

June 

27. 

John Sartain 

TO 

Sibol Weale, a widow. 

1700. 

Nov. 

25. 

Edward Sartaine 

TO 

Mary Pirkit, a widow. 

1703. 

May 

13. 

William Sartain 

TO 

Martha Lighty 

(a bonnit maker) 

1704. 

April 

16. 

Robert Sartaine 

(a dairyman) 

TO 

Alice Hancock. 

1704. 

June 

4. 

Grace Sartain 

TO 

Thomas Berrim 


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1707. 

Oct. 

5. 

Margery Sartain 

to 

Alexander Rich. 

1719. 

April 

3. 

Joseph Sartin 

TO 

Margaret Witting. 

1731. 

July 

4. 

John Sartin 

TO 

Mary Holmes. 

1731. 

July 

25. 

Robert Sartain 

TO 

Grace Edwards. 

1733. 

Dec. 

24. 

Ann Sartain 

TO 

John Marler. 

1738. 

April 

4. 

Mary Sartain 

TO 

Charles Gray. 

1741. 

Aug. 

16. 

Joseph Sertain 

TO 

Elizabeth Grayton. 

1742. 

Jan. 

17. 

John Sertain 

TO 

Amey Chivers. 

1744. 

July 

15. 

Thomas Sertain 

TO 

Ann Witcomb. 

1748. 

May 

30. 

Robert Sertain 

TO 

Ann Wie. 

1754. 

Nov. 

19. 

William Sertain 

TO 

Sarah Harfill. 

1754. 

Dec. 

8. 

Robert Sertain 

TO 

Mary Longden. 

1756. 

Oct. 

20. 

George Sertain 

TO 

Martha Harding. 

1763. 

Oct. 

12 . 

Martha Sertain (widdow) 

TO 

Roger Shaul. 

1764. 

Aug. 

6. 

James Sertain 

TO 

Mary Whatley. 

1764. 

Oct. 

13. 

Mary Sartin (widdow) 

TO 

James Salisbury. 

1764. 

Nov. 

12 . 

Joseph Sartin 

TO 

Sarah Waite. 

1764. 

Dec. 

2. 

William Sertain 

TO 

Margaret Stevens. 

1768. 

Oct. 

16. 

Betty Sertain 

TO 

James Hooper, of Brad- 

1768. 



Sartain, of T rowbridge, 

BY 

ford, Wilts. 

LICENCE, TO P 

1769. 

Aug. 

28. 

Ann Sartain 

TO 

John Morgan. 

1770. 

. April 

23. 

Robert Sartain 

TO 

Ann Pavey. (my grand- 

1770. 

May 

20. 

James Sartain 

TO 

parents). 

Sarah Beaven. 

1770. 

Nov. 

6. 

William Sartin 

TO 

Charity Bendal. 

1773. 

April 

20. 

Sarah Sartin (of North 

TO 

James Long. 

1774. 

July 

17. 

Bradleyi 

Phebe Sartin 

TO 

Richard Hairbottle. 

1776. 

July 

7. 

Richard Sartin 

TO 

Elizabeth Whatley. 

1776. 

Oct. 

13. 

Ann Sartin 

TO 

Israel Taylor. 

1777. 

Nov. 

26. 

Margaret Sartin (widow) 

TO 

Edward Washfield. 

1780. 

June 

25. 

James Sartin (widower) 

TO 

Ann Parsons. 

1782. 

July 

7. 

Johathan Sartin 

TO 

Patience Pinchen. 

1782. 

Oct. 

7. 

Sarah Sartin 

TO 

William Reynols. 


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1798. 

Sept. 

4. 

Elizabeth Sartin (widow) 

TO 

Thomas Randall. 

1801. 

Jan. 

1 . 

John Sartin 

TO 

Susannah Messiter. 

1802. 

Aug. 

16. 

Elinor Sartin 

TO 

Joseph Hurd. 

1802. 

Oct. 

13. 

Robert Sartin 

TO 

Ruth Rains. 

1803. 

April 

10 . 

Grace Sartin 

TO 

Joseph Richman. 

1809. 

Sept. 

17. 

Mary Sartin 

TO 

John Bancroft. 

1814. 

Sept. 

19. 

Hannah Sartin 

TO 

John Gillet. 

1818. 

Sept. 

14. 

Abigail Sartin 

TO 

William Nunn. 

1823. 

July 

17. 

Mary Sartain 

TO 

Joseph Banks. 

1825. 

Feb. 

28. 

Sarah Sartin 

TO 

John Davis. 

1835. 

Aug. 

5. 

Mary Sartain 

TO 

William Bray. 

1843. 

Aug. 

1 r . 

Mary Sartain, daughter of 
John S 

TO 

John Heal. 

1848. 

Nov. 

16. 

Miriam Sartain 

TO 

Henry Purnell. 

1853. 

June 

28. 

Job Sartain, son of John S. 

TO 

Ann Hunt. 

1859. 

June 

13. 

Rosena Sartain, d. of James, 

TO 

Joseph Silcocks. 

1860. 

July 

1 . 

John Sartain, s. of John S. 

TO 

Mary Ann Rose. 

1870. 

Dec. 

25. 

Harriet Sartain, daughter 
of James, 

TO 

Samuel Taylor. 

1871. 

Dec. 

25. 

Arthur Sartain, son of 

James S. 

TO 

Elizabeth Brown. 

1877. 

Nov. 

25. 

Emma Sartain, d. of James S. 

TO 

Joseph Hayward. 


Additional Sartain Records subsequent to those of Trowbridge, 

BELONGING IN LONDON, ENGLAND, AND PHILADELPHIA, PA., UNITED STATES. 

John Sartain, of Trowbridge (my father \ at the age of 31, married Ann Burgess, 
of Nottingham (my mother), aged 28, October 25th, 1802, at the Church 
of St. George’s, Hanover Square, London. 

They had four children, all born in London, as follows: 

1. Ann Sartain, born August 22, 1803. Died in Philadelphia, May 2S, 1881. 

2. Mary Sartain, b. March 12, 1806. Died in London, of croup, February, 1809. 

3. John Sartain, b. October 24, 1808. [Still living, 1886.] 

4. Mary Sartain, b. Aug. 15, 1812. Burnt to death, her clothes catching fire, 

December 15, 1820. 



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My sister, Ann, was married June 12, 1832, in London, at St. George’s Church, 
Hanover Square, to James Thomas Pratt, who died 'in London', November 
30, 1837, aged 28. 

T HEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, WHO BOTH DIED YOUNG. 

Ann Sartain Pratt, born (in Philadelphia) August 17, 1833. Died (in London) 
October 3, 1847. 

Martha Eliza Pratt, born (in London' June 7, 1836. Died (in London) July 7, 
1839. 

Their mother, Ann Sartain Pratt, died in Philadelphia, May 29, 1881. 


Myself, John Sartain (No. 3), was married January 11, 1830, to Susannah Long- 
mate SwAINE, ALSO OF LONDON, AT THE CHURCH OF St. MARY’S LE STRAND, 
London. We had eight children, all born in Philadelphia, five of whom 

WERE BOYS, AND TWO OF THEM, A BOY AND A GIRL, DIED YOUNG. THEY WERE 
AS FOLLOWS: 


Samuel Sartain, 

born 

October 

8, 

1830. 

Married, December 

11, 

1854. 

Henry Sartain, 

BORN 

July 

24, 

1833. 

Married, October 

26, 

1867. 

Emma Sartain, 

BORN 

October 

4, 

1836. 

Died, March 

4, 

1837. 

Helen Mary Sartain, 

BORN 

June 

13, 

1838. 

Married, June 

13, 

1859. 

Emily Sartain, 

BORN 

March 

17, 

1841. 




William Sartain, 

BORN 

November 21 , 

1843. 




Charles Sartain, 

BORN 

August 

11, 

1846. 




Edward Sartain, 

BORN 

May 

21, 

1849. 

Died, October 

13, 

1851. 

Samuel Sartain, my 

ELDEST 

SON, WAS 

MARRIED at 

THE AGE OF 24, TO 

Harriet A. 


Judd, of Waterbury, Connecticut (same age), December 11, 1854, at the 

RESIDENCE OF THE BRIDE’S UNCLE, WATERBURY, CONN. THEY HAD THREE CHIL- 
DREN, ONE. OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY. 

Edwin Judd Sartain, born June 7, 1860. Died, August 27, 1860. 

Paul Judd Sartain, born November 26, 1861. 

Amy Sartain, born January 16, 1864. 


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H’enry Sartain, my second son, was married at the age of 34, to Ann Maria 
Toby, of Selhurst, Surrey, England, aged 26, October 26, 1867, at Holy 
Trinity Church, Brompton, London, England. They had five children, 
born in Philadelphia, as follows: 


Perdita Sartain, 

stillborn, January 27, 

1869. 


Helen May Sartain, 

BORN 

December 

|T 

CM 

1869. 


Edward Sartain, 

BORN 

February 

22, 

1872. 

Died, Jan. 6, 1873, of 

Harriet Sartain, 





DIPHTHERIA. 

BORN 

December 

c d 

CM 

1873. 


John Swaine Sartain, 

BORN 

September 

CM 

1877. 



Helen Mary Sartain, the fourth in order of my children, was married to Harry 
Benner Schofield, on the twenty-first anniversary of her birthday, June 
13, 1859, at the residence of her parents, Schofield being aged 28. 
They had five children, as follows: 

Frank Schofield, born June 9, 1860. 

Emily Sartain Schofield, born March 19, 1863. Died, August 6, 1863. 

Percy Sartain Schofield, born March 14, 1866. 

Louis Sartain Schofield, born August 4, 1868. 

Irwin Sartain Schofield, born April 30, 1877. 


Emily, William and Charles remain unmarried, 1886. 


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QSurtaffi. 

Attest: 


Previous Records lost. 


George L. Cheverill, 

parish Clerk. 


1579. 

Sept. 

26. 

Christian Sertayne (ye wife of Marke\ 

1579. 

Sept. 

22. 

Henry Sertayne (ye son of Marke). 

1596. 

Sept. 

9. 

Thomas Sartaine (ye sonne of John). 

1611. 

June 

7. 

William Sartaine. 

1614. . 

July 

19. 

Jane Sartin (wife of William\ 

1621. 

Aug. 

18. 

Agnes Sartaine (daughter of J. Sartaine). 

1623. 

Dec. 

29. 

John Sartaine. 

1629. 

Oct. 

14. 

Maria Sartaine. 

1639. 

April 

8. 

William Sartaine (holder of Studley). 

1640. 

May 

19. 

Daniel Sartaine (son of Thomas).' 

Registers missing from 1642 to 1645. 

1647. 

July 

2, 

An Sartaine (wife of Henry S., of Stafferton). 

1648. 

June 

15. 

An Sartaine (daughter of Henry S., elder of Studley). 

1648. 

Feb. 

22. 

Henry Sartaine (of Studley ford). 

1649. 

April 

8. 

An Sartaine (daughter of Henry). 

1654. 

Nov. 

11. 

Widow Sartaine. 

1662. 

Aug. 

27. 

Katharine Sartaine 'daughter of John). 

1667. 

May 

30. 

An Sartaine (wife of William). 

1667. 

Nov. 

24. 

An Sartaine (daughter of John). 

1 671. 

July 

17. 

Ann Sartain (daughter of Henry). 

1676. 

Feb. 

18. 

Maria Sartain (daughter of John). 

1676. 

May 

4 

Robert Sartain (son of Robert). 


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B URIALS— Continued. 



167S. 

May 6. 

Ann Sartain. 

1680. 

Oct. 10. 

Anthoni Sartain. 

1681. 

July 4. 

Ann Sartain. 

1682. 

March 28. 

John Sartain. 

1684. 

March 1. 

Anthonie Sartain. 

1684. 

Sept. 6. 

Richard Sartain. 

1685. 

April 26. 

Nathanil Sartain. 

1686. 

Dec. 23. 

Ann Sartain. 

1687. 

Dec. 19. 

William Sartain, elder. 

1688. 

June 14. 

Joan Sartain. 

1692. 

April 21. 

Edeath Sartain. 

1692. 

May 31. 

John Sartain. 

1697. 

Nov. 28. 

Antonie Sartaine. 

1702. 

Sept. 16. 

John Sartaine (his father, a weaver at Studley). 

1703. 

July 23. 

Henry Sartain (a weaver). 

1704. 

July 23. 

William Sartain. 

1704. 

Sept. 4. 

Martha Sartain (widdo). 

1710. 

Oct. 27. 

Anne Sartain (widdo)- 

1711. 

Nov. 9. 

Jonathan Sartin. 

1712. 

M AY 18. 

Ann Sartain. 

1712. 

May 27. 

Mary Sarton. 

1712. 

Sept. 7. 

Edward Sartin. 

1713. 

March 25. 

Ann Sartin. 

1714. 

June 15. 

Widdow Sartin. 

1715. 

Feb. 19. 

Mary Sartan. 

1716. 

April 30. 

Richard Sartin. 

1718. 

Nov. 13. 

Mary Sarten. 

1719. 

Dec. 8. 

John Sarton (old man\ 

1720. 

Sept. 11. 

Mary Sarten (single). 

1722. 

Sept. 1 7. 

Mary Sertaine (a child). 

1723. 

Oct. 1 3. 

Avife Sertaine (a old woman). 

1726. 

Jan. 12. 

Elizabeth Sertaine. 

1729. 

May 6. 

Sarah Sertaine (a child). 


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B UEI ALS — Continued. 


1730. 

Feb. 

25. 

FIonnour Sertaine. 

1732. 

Feb. 

11. 

William Sartain. 

1734. 

Nov. 

4. 

Mary Sartain (wife of Robert). 

1735. 

March 21 . 

Elizabeth Sartain (wife of Edward). 

1735. 

Oct. 

12 . 

FIenry Sartain 'son of FIenry). 

1737. 

Oct. 

30. 

Katharine Sartain (daughter of Robert). 

1739. 

Oct. 

21. 

Jane Sartain. 

1740. 

April 

13. 

Edward Sartaine (son of FIenry). 

1740. 

July 

22. 

Betty Sartain. 

1740. 

Aug. 

8. 

Betty Sartain (daughter of William). 

1740. 

Oct. 

24. 

Elizabeth Sertaine. 

1741. 

April 

17. 

Jane Sertaine (daughter of John). 

1741. 

Dec. 

13. 

Ann Sertain. 

1741. 

Dec. 

16. 

Catharine Sertaine (daughter of Robert). 

1742. 

May 

28. 

Sarah Sertain. 

1744. 

April 

1 . 

Joseph Sertain (son of Robert and Sarah). 

1 745. 

Aug. 

4. 

Sarah Sertain. 

1747. 

Dec. 


Mary Sertain (daughter of John\ 

1767. 

July 

7. 

John Sartin. 

1768. 

Jan. 

19. 

Henry Sartin. 

1769. 

Aug. 

6. 

Sarah Sartin (daughter of James). 

1772. 

Sept. 

13. 

Ann Sartin (daughter of William). 

1774. 

Feb. 

8. 

William Sartin. 

1774. 

June 

12 . 

Isaac Sartin. 

1774. 

Sept. 

25. 

William Sartin’s child. 

1776. 

Jan. 

7. 

Robert Sartin. 

1776. 

May 

9. 

Robert Sartin’s widow. 

1778. 

June 

14. 

Robert Sartin’s child. 

1781. 

. Aug. 

17. 

Amey Sartin. 

1782. 

Dec. 

23. 

Jane Sartin’s child. 

1787. 

Jan. 

28. 

Richard Sartin. 

1787. 

Dec. 

14. 

Elizabeth Sartin’s child. 

1788. 

Oct. 

26. 

Robert Sartin’s child. 





BURIALS— Continued. 


1789. 

Jan. 

21. 

Jonathan Sartin’s child. 



1792. 

March 1 9. 

John Sartin. 



1793. 

March 

3. 

Sarah Sartin’s child. 



1807. 

Feb. 

26. 

Robert Sartin (my grandfather). 



1807. 

April 

21. 

Samuel, son of Rebecca Sartain. 



1810. 

Aug. 

12. 

Ann Sartin, daughter of Robert and 

Ann (my aunt). 

1818. 

Dec. 

13. 

Jonathan Sartain, aged 60 years. 



1821. 

Dec. 

13. ' 

Mary Sartain, aged 36 yrs. (my aunt, 

d. 

of Robt. & Ann). 

1822. 

Aug. 

1. 

Ann Sartain, aged 73 (my grandmother, 

widow of Robt.). 

1831. 

Oct. 

26. 

Sarah Sartain, aged 76 (widow of JoHtv 

i S.). 

1834. 

Feb. 

8. 

George Sartain, aged 3 years. 



1835. 

April 

13. 

Thomas Sartain, aged 12 years. 



1837. 

Jan. 

9. 

Patience Sartain, aged 76 years. 



1843. 

March 30. 

Ruth Sartain, aged 6 years. 



1843. 

March 30. 

Thomas Sartain, aged 2 years. 



1845. 

Dec. 

8. 

Thomas Sartain, aged 2 years. 



1850. 

Jan. 

15. 

Francis Sartain, aged 2 years. 




The Trowbridge Churchyard closed from Burials, 1855. 


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Since this is a family record, it may not be deemed 
inappropriate to conclude ft with, a notice of the mem- 
ber who compiled it, so easy of accomplishment now, 
by simply collecting a few of the numerous published 
matters that have appeared from time to time, and 
which must speedily disappear in the natural order 
of things. The larger part of the following is from 
the weekly periodical entitled “Progress,” published by 
John W. Forney. 

“The branch of engraving on steel known as mez- 
zotinto was first introduced and practiced as a regular 
profession in America in the year 1830, by John Sar- 
tain, of Philadelphia. Occasionally, however, works in 
this style had been produced before that time, but only 
in an experimental sort of way, by amateurs-, without 
being followed up in any instance. 

“This artist was born in London, October 24, 1808, 
and was educated to be. an engraver in what is called 
the line manner, in which style he produced eighteen 
of the plates in Ottley’s folio work entitled The Early 
Florentine School published in 1826, presenting exam- 
ples of the best masters of that school successively, 
from Cimabue, in 1260, and Giotto, his pupil, down to 
Luca Signorelli -in 1500. Besides these, he finished the 
plates begun in Italy for the same work in 1792 by 
Tommaso Piroli. In 1828 Mr. Sartain ■commenced the 
practice of mezzotinto, and thereafter seldom resumed 


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in its purity tine art lie JracL first learned, but mingled 
both styles, with the addition of stippling, in all his 
plates, 

“ When but ten years old he left school, in which 
he had learned little, and at twelve began a career of 
active industry, first as a pyrotechnist, with- Signor 
Mortram, an Italian, who was also assistant scene 
painter to Telbin Grieve, at Charles Kemble’s' Theatre 
Eoyal, Covent Garden, London, In many of the stage 
performances the aid of fireworks was necessary to 
the effects, and young Sartain was frequently trusted 
to carry out his part, without being overlooked, such 
was his steadiness of character at that early age, 
There, in the large painting room of that grand theatre, 
his picture-loving tastes were gratified by viewing the 
progress of the art creations of the master genius . of 
the place, Much of the glistening surfaces of the 
‘Castle of Polished Steel’ (produced in 1821) was from 
the tinsel and Dutch metal that he stuck on to the 
artists’ touches of glue, This Italian whom he served 
was- also pyrotechnist to the then fashionable Vaux- 
hall Gardens, and on the occasion of the coronation 
of George IV, a large portion of the display of fire- 
works in Hyde Park, in 1821, was his, In all these 
performances the boy was relied on for timely atten- 
tion to duties the same as a man, except where man’s 
strength was needed, 


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“On arriving at the age of fourteen he was appren- 
ticed to learn the art of engraving, and such was his 
progress in a single year, that William Y, Ottley, the 
eminent art oritio and learned antiguary, confided to 
him the execution of the plates for his work in folio 
Of The Early Florentine School , The three engravings 
after Benozzo Gozzoli, in that work, were done when 
he had not entered his fifteenth year, At this time 
his eagerness in the pursuit of knowledge made ample 
amends for the deficiency of his early education, 

“Besides engraving, he has engaged professionally 
in painting in oils, in. water-colors and in miniature 
on ivory, In water-colors he had the instruction of 
the eminent artist, John Var ley; in oils, Joshua Shaw; 
in miniature and figure painting in water-colors, Henry 
Eiohter, and figure painting in oils, Manuel J, Defranca,- 
Bor some time he made vignette designs for the em- 
bellishments on bank notes, for Draper, Underwood & 
Co,, and also made designs on wood for that branch of 
engraving, 

“In 1843 he became sole proprietor and editor of 
Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine, in which he 
was the first in America to print ‘The Song of the 
Shirt,’ ‘ The Bridge of Sighs,’ ‘ The Drop of Gin,’ and 
other pieces of a kindred nature, which afterwards 
'became so widely popular, Agassiz’s article entitled 
'A Period in the History of Our Planet,’ he printed 


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as early as October, 1843, when the name of' that 
eminent scientist was hardly known, it at all, on 
this side of the Atlantic, During the same year he had 
an interest in the Eclectic Museum , along with E, Littell 
and the Bev, John H, Agnew, which work was after- 
wards continued by Mr, Agnew alone, as the Eclectic , 
and Mr, Sartain simply engraved the plates that em- 
bellished the monthly numbers, In the fall of 1848 
he purchased a one-half interest in the Union Maga- 
zine (also a New York publication), and it became 
known throughout the country as Sartain' s Magazine; 
during the latter part of its career Sartain was also 
its editor, It was finally merged into another monthly 
of the sister city, Besides the literary labors insepa- 
rable from these engagements, he was frequently called 
on to exercise his pen on various subjects, more par- 
ticularly those having relation to art, 

“ His industry has been untiring,, and his capacity 
for continued labor a surprise to those who possessed 
opportunities of knowing his habits, Many years ago 
he had, no doubt, already executed with his own 
unassisted hand more plates than any one ■ in the 
profession ever did in a long life-time, Many still 
remember the time when the Annuals were in fashion, 
that there was hardly a volume of the kind published 
on this side of the. Atlantic that had not all its plates 
from his prolific burin, Graham's Magazine , during the 


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first and. best years of its existence, bad a plate every 
month by him ; so, too, the Eclectic and Ms own Semi- 
Monthly, one every two weeks; all this in addition to 
bis other engraving and literary work, His rapidity 
under pressure may be judged from the manner in 
wMcb the portrait plate of Espartero was produced, in 
a sudden emergency, for the November number of the 
Semi-Monthly, 1843, Beginning on the uniform blaok 
mezzotint ground at past midnight, the plate was fin- 
ished and lettered by daybreak when the printers came 
to work, Again, the portrait of Sir Bobert Peel, in 
the October number of the Eclectic, 1850, was. begun 
at a little before 2 P, M, from the same state as the 
.preceding, and at five the same afternoon a finished 
proof was mailed to New York, All the plates re- 
ferred to, so far, were for books; we will now turn 
to more important works. 

His large framing prints, too, are guite numerous, 
several of them as much as three feet in length; but 
to attempt only a mere catalogue would occupy much 
space, Prominent among them are: ‘ Christ Rejected,’ 
after West; ‘The Iron-worker and -King Solomon,’ after 
Sohussele; ‘Civil War in Missouri,’ after Bingham; 
'Homestead of Henry Clay,’ after Hamilton; 'John 
Knox and Mary Queen of Soots,’ after Leutze; ‘Men 
of Progress, American Inventors,’ after Sohussele; 
‘The County Election in Missouri,’ after Bingham; 


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‘Zeisberger Preaching to the Indians at Gosgoshunk,’ 
Schussele; ‘The Battle of Gettysburg,’ after Rothermel 
(this last a work of enormous labor), and many 
others, 

“Much. of his time and attention has been given to 
numerous associations in which he held membership,. 
As a controller of the Artists’ Bund Society from 1835 
on, he was always an active member of exhibition 
and other committees, and filled successively all the- 
offices in its gift from President down, For twenty- 
three years as Director of the Pennsylvania Academy 
of the Fine Arts he was its most active laborer, first 
under the presidency of Henry D, Gilpin, then under 
that of Caleb Cope, and lastly under that of James L, 
Claghorn, During his travels in Europe, undertaken 
for his own pleasure and study, he saw personally 
the honorary members. of the Institution, and delivered 
to them their diplomas; this in Spain, Italy, Germany, 
France, Belgium, Holland, England and Scotland, 
and availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded 
of making better known and appreciated the oldest 
academy of the fine arts in the United States, In 
many other prominent institutions’ of Philadelphia he 
has been a manager or director, and is now Vice 
President of the School of Design for Women, having 
twice positively declined the presidency, of it, which 
was tendered him, Many years ago he was elected an 


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honorary member of an art society in Amsterdam, 
entitled the 1 Arti et Amioitiae,’ In addition to many 
medals received from different quarters, the King of 
Italy conferred on him the title of ‘Cavaliere,’ with 
a decoration, and the appointment of ‘Officer of the 
Equestrian Order of the Grown of Italy,’ 

“Without entering particularly into his multitudin- 
ous occupations, it ought not to be omitted that his 
architectural knowledge and taste have been frequently 
called in aid of important projects. Among them, the 
plans for the arrangement of the galleries and rooms 
of both floors of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Pine 
Arts are from his drawings, prepared at the request 
of the Building Committee of the Directors, He de- 
signed the lofty granite monument to Washington and 
Lafayette at Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, and 
superintended its construction ; modelled the two 
colossal medallion heads from which the bronze like- 
nesses were cast, and is the author of the two admired 
inscriptions cast in bronze and placed on opposite 
sides of the pedestal, Other monuments of import- 
ance in the same cemetery are from his designs, as 
is also the steeple on the building at the entrance 
to the grounds on Broad street, 

“ After the organization had been completed for hold- 
ing the great International Exhibition in commemo- 
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of Independence, Mr, Sartain was selected to fill the 
important and responsible position of Chief of the 
Bureau of Art, The manner in which the arduous 
duties were discharged was deemed worthy of the 
highest praise, while the economy in its management 
made it infinitely less costly than any other depart- 
ment of the Exhibition, The title and decoration from 
the Italian sovereign was marked evidence of- appre- 
ciation in that guar ter, 

“While in the midst of a crushing weight of nu- 
merous engagements, Mr, Sartain projected The Am eric an 
EallBry nf Art 'and produced the first guarto of what 
was intended to be a continuous series of annual 
volumes, But the pecuniary loss on the first issue 
was so serious as to prevent its further prosecution, 
The plan was comprehensive: each volume was to 
contain engravings from characteristic examples of 
American pointers of eminence, each subject selected 
by the artist himself, and In no case was there to 
appear a second picture by any artist, Erom numer- 
ous commendatory reviews of the published volume, 
we guote one from the pen of an eminent author, 
Dr, William Elder, 

‘"The work before us, the first volume it ought to 
be called, is in guarto, very elegantly bound, 110 pages 
of letter press, and eleven engravings, all executed 
with the editor’s own unsurpassed skill, Mr, Sartain, 

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to the genius and industry of eminent art, adds its 
richest enthusiasm and most generous spirit; and the 
heart of the man liberalizes the work of the artist, 
In his personal character the public has the best as- 
surance of the worthiest work which his high and 
broad range of talent gualifies him to achieve,’ 

“ Surprise has often been expressed that such in- 
cessant labor could be persevered in through so long 
a series of years without a breaking down of health, 
But on the contrary, his energy remains undiminished, 
he is still diligent in business, ’fervent, in spirit, and 
pursues his profession with all the old enthusiasm, 
His eyesight, too, continues unimpaired, • notwithstand- 
ing the extent to which it has been taxed, added to 
advanced age, But the fact .is, 4 the family is of the 
old Huguenot stock, which history shows is of the 
toughest fibre, remarkable for its * endurance and de- 
termination, The Sartains fled from Prance along 
with the earliest emigrants, caused by the persecutions 
practiced against those who had dared to read ' the - 
printed Bible, They settled at Trowbridge, in the West 
of England, about half a century before Henry HI, 
promulgated his famous Edict of ."Nantes in 1598, 
establishing religious toleration, and there the father 
of the subject of this notice was born, in 1771, 

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tunities, as t hey presented themselves,' of forming ool- 
leotions of pictures, prints, and. other art materials of 
value in his profession, as well as a considerable 
aooumulation of autograph letters from distinguished 
men, The first named were dispersed under a reverse 
of fortune in 1852, Among the last is a noteworthy 
epistle from Bayard Taylor, dated at Kennett Square, 
Chester county, Pennsylvania, when he was in his 
seventeenth year, asking Mr, Sartaln to receive him as 
an apprentice, Thus we see how near the future rep- 
resentative of the nation at the G-erman Court oame 
to earning distinction in a path so widely different 
from that on which his reputation now rests, 

“Much has appeared in print from time to time 
concerning the personal character of the subject of 
this notice, and 'he has been so prominently before 
the public in various capacities during more than half 
a century that there has been abundant opportunity 
for . arriving a.t a reasonably fair judgment, It will 
suffice to quote but one of these, by no means the* 
most laudatory, printed in the PhrEnolog-inal Journal, 
of New York, in the number for September, 1870, 
Mr, Fowler, the eminent phrenologist, thus wrote after 
an examination, but before knowing who was his 
subject : 

“‘This gentleman has a very excellent organization 
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physical vigor, and. endurance, There is such a bal- 
ance between the temperaments as to produce har- 
monious action, with smoothness, energy and vigor, 
The result is an easy-working, effective organization, 

“‘We seldom meet with one who is more active, 
more earnest, or efficient, He has enthusiasm tem- 
pered by coolness, He has an indomitable will, 
engages in enterprises with a determination to succeed, 
and his ambition and strength increase with the 
multiplicity of difficulties, He dwells with patience 
and persistency., upon whatever he undertakes, and 
whatever he undertakes is done thoroughly and well, 

“ ' His social affections are prominent elements of 
his character. He is gallant to women, fond of 
children, and very fraternal and cordial in intercourse 
with friends, He is frank and candid, inclined to 
speak and act as he feels, Enjoys making money, 
but uses it with liberality, Is upright in spirit, just 
in judgment, hopeful, and ardent in reference to the 
future, Is respectful and sympathetical, and kind to 
those who are in need, 

‘“He has ample constructiveness, and with large 
ideality and form, shows taste in everything aesthetic, 
His immense perceptive organs give him great powers 
of observation, Is orderly and systematic in all he 
does, and attends to detail to the last degree, With 
his excellent reasoning powers he is 'able to plan, in- 

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vent and comprehend remote conditions and relations, 
and judges well of human character, Reads men like 
a hook, and is well calculated to exert a commanding 
influence among men,’ ” 


The following is cut from the “Philadelphia Press" of February 22, 1886, 

REPRINTED FROM THE “New YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER”: 


A NOTED PHILADELPHIAN. 

Gossip about a man who seems to be getting younger every day of his life. 

John Sartain, Jhe engraver, is one of the noted char- 
acters of Philadelphia, which he has made his home for 
more than half a century, He is said to have been the 
first mezzotint engraver of any repute, and to have pro- 
duced more works than any living member of his pro- 
fession, Although English by birth, he is as thoroughly 
American in' character, spirit and feeling as if his an- 
cestors had been born here for generations, He has, 

• from his early youth, had the deepest interest in art ; 
has travelled much abroad, and received various foreign 
orders of merit, Hearty forty years ago he was, to his 
COSt, the publisher, and proprietor Of Sartain' s Magazine , 
which was begun here as the Union Magazine, and after- 
ward removed to Philadelphia, Despite his seventy- 
eight years, he is as brimming with energy, ambition 
and plans as when he first immigrated to the United 
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perpetual youth, and not one of them ever thinks of 
him as old. 

Not long since, having heard of the enoaustic por- 
trait of Cleopatra (believed hy many to have been taken 
from life), in a nobleman’s villa near Sorrento, he- 
at once set off for Italy to see it. He was greatly im- 
pressed with it, and has written of it enthusiastically. 
It is often asserted that he is the youngest artist, in 
feeling and expectation, in all Philadelphia. He has 
new schemes every day, and to carry half of them out 
he would need to live at least three hundred years. 
William Sartain, the well-known Hew York artist, is 
his son, who freguently regrets that he is so much 
older than his father. 


Mr. Sartain is prominent in the Order of Free Masons, 
and has received thirty-six degrees in its mysteries; is 
a Past Master of his Lodge, and Past High Priest of his 
Chapter. Has been for many years annually re-elected 
Grand Treasurer of twenty-nine degrees of the Ancient 
Accepted Eite, and is a Eosicruoian. 

As he was chief of the Art Department of the great 
Centennial Exhibition in 1876, so he has been selected 
as the fittest ]£an to occupy the corresponding position 
in the American Exhibition to be held in London in 
1887. 


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